Uploaded July 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Fresh figs are today one of my top 3 favorite fruits. But it wasn't that way until 2015/2016. My only experience with figs up until that time was fig newtons which I never liked. I just assumed fig fruit tasted like that so I spent my entire life never trying them. Then in 2015/2016 I was placing an order online for fruit trees, it was a pretty large order and they charged for shipping if the order was under $300. It just so happened that shipping was going to be around $70 and I was only $10 short on meeting the $300 minimum. So I start browsing for what this supplier had that was cheap and edible. That was figs. So when I purchased this fig, I really didn't care if it lived or died ... I only bought it to save myself $70 but I still planted it anyways and it was one of the first fruit trees I planted after the blueberries. Well, that fig tree really took off in its location and it formed 4 or 5 fig fruits. I didn't even know when to harvest them so I quickly found out because one thing I am not, is wasteful. So like them or not, I wasn't going to let them go to waste and I would eat them anyways. As I continued to monitor them, they finally showed signs they were ready to be picked. I picked a fig, cut it open with a knife, used by teeth to scrape out the insides, and immediately had to change my order of "top fruits". I liked them so much, I cloned this fig tree around 10 times the next year. And I cloned it again in 2019 and 2020 ... so I have a lot of fig trees that are all doing well but this is the mother fig tree. It has sentimental value to me, if that makes sense. Its the fig that showed me how great figs really taste and also provided me with all the daughter plants for my other fig trees. But I also made a mistake that same year I planted it, in that I planted 5 pawpaw trees next to it, because at that time I didn't care if the fig tree lived or died....... and now, those pawpaw trees have grown so large they are shading out the fig tree and due to the sentimental value of that tree, I don't want to lose it today. So in the very near future, I will be moving this fig tree and its growing container to another location on the property, I will probably even find a prime spot for it I may have been reserving for something else. That tree today really means a lot to me. If you have never had fresh figs, or even dried figs unseasoned, you should try them .... and then you will see what all the fuss is about.
Fresh figs are today one of my top 3 favorite fruits. But it wasn't that way until 2015/2016. My only experience with figs up until that time was fig newtons which I never liked. I just assumed fig fruit tasted like that so I spent my entire life never trying them. Then in 2015/2016 I was placing an order online for fruit trees, it was a pretty large order and they charged for shipping if the order was under $300. It just so happened that shipping was going to be around $70 and I was only $10 short on meeting the $300 minimum. So I start browsing for what this supplier had that was cheap and edible. That was figs. So when I purchased this fig, I really didn't care if it lived or died ... I only bought it to save myself $70 but I still planted it anyways and it was one of the first fruit trees I planted after the blueberries. Well, that fig tree really took off in its location and it formed 4 or 5 fig fruits. I didn't even know when to harvest them so I quickly found out because one thing I am not, is wasteful. So like them or not, I wasn't going to let them go to waste and I would eat them anyways. As I continued to monitor them, they finally showed signs they were ready to be picked. I picked a fig, cut it open with a knife, used by teeth to scrape out the insides, and immediately had to change my order of "top fruits". I liked them so much, I cloned this fig tree around 10 times the next year. And I cloned it again in 2019 and 2020 ... so I have a lot of fig trees that are all doing well but this is the mother fig tree. It has sentimental value to me, if that makes sense. Its the fig that showed me how great figs really taste and also provided me with all the daughter plants for my other fig trees. But I also made a mistake that same year I planted it, in that I planted 5 pawpaw trees next to it, because at that time I didn't care if the fig tree lived or died....... and now, those pawpaw trees have grown so large they are shading out the fig tree and due to the sentimental value of that tree, I don't want to lose it today. So in the very near future, I will be moving this fig tree and its growing container to another location on the property, I will probably even find a prime spot for it I may have been reserving for something else. That tree today really means a lot to me. If you have never had fresh figs, or even dried figs unseasoned, you should try them .... and then you will see what all the fuss is about.
